MCU Meets 'Real' Cinema: Like The Incredible Hulk? Try City Of God
The dullest topic in movie discourse is when directors who have nothing to do with the MCU are asked about the MCU. It's always an attempt to bait them into saying 'the MCU sucks!' so we get another go around on the Scorsese Says machine. It's tiresome, especially when you look into what Scorsese said and realise he wasn't even being particularly critical, he was just - accurately - separating what the MCU does from what he does. In any case, we here at TheGamer are fighting against this war one column at a time. We're comparing MCU flicks to the 'real' cinema they closest resemble, in an attempt to highlight that MCU films are more varied than they seem, but also to push MCU fans into watching a greater variety of movies.
Last week, we started with Iron Man. You can check that out here, as well as a longer ramble on what this project hopes to achieve. Psst, it's traffic. It's always traffic. With dollar signs in our eyes and traffic on our mind, we turn to the next MCU film... The Incredible Hulk. Well, fuck. Nice knowing you. Bye now.
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For those of you who have stuck around, be warned that I will be mounting something of a defence for The Incredible Hulk. It's basically two movies in one - a good movie, and a Hulk movie. The Hulk movie is not good. In fact it's downright bad. The MCU didn't start off in a blaze of glory - we've got the first Thor movie to look forward to soon - and while Hulk is usually the poster boy for this, before The Incredible Hulk becomes a terrible Hulk movie, it starts off as a pretty good movie, and one fairly similar to City of God. So, if you like The Incredible Hulk (some of you must), you should try City of
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